Among the leading children, Su Dongpo only knew Cheng Xia and Cheng Shuang, and the two of them seemed to be children's heads, holding a thick stack of papers in their hands, directing the strong men in the courtyard to be busy. Mrs. Wang and the other three women stood far away at the door of the snow hall, and Su Dongpo's children were very curious, and they circled around the group of strong men.

Su Dongpo called Cheng Xia and asked, "What about your teacher?" ”

Cheng Xia replied with a forked hand: "Master, the teacher led the two Japanese away last night, saying that he was planning to send the Japanese to Mingzhou and send them to the ship. ”

Su Dongpo looked at the noisy courtyard and said dissatisfiedly, "What is this for?" Don't you see that I have a guest? ”

Cheng Xia replied: "Master, this is the teacher's order." The teacher said, "Winter is coming, and my husband's house is small, so he can't accommodate guests or let his aunt wait for delivery, so he told us to build the house as soon as possible." If the master thinks it is noisy - my Cheng family's compound has prepared wine and food, and the master will go there to rest for two days. ”

Two days off? Can you build a house in two days?

Su Shi's gaze swept over those busy strong men and found that they had some strange tools in their hands. He wanted to explore it well, but the guests were on the side, and it was lunch time again, so he had to lead the guests to the Cheng family's compound in the city in frustration.

Sure enough, it only took two days, and Cheng Xia was not boasting.

The Cheng people have rich experience in building houses, and in Huangzhou, even in modern times, most of the popular single-brick houses are built, so that the thin walls are built quickly under the division of labor, and four walls are built on the first day. By midnight, the workers had completed the capping. On the second day, they began to work on the interior decoration such as installing doors and windows.

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The Yellow Sea, no wind and no waves. There was a lonely Song boat floating on the sea.

The bow of this Song ship is square, shaped like a miniature version of the Nanhai No. 1.

The bow of the Song boat is empty, and layers of woodblock are like stacked building blocks to build an upturned windward side, and the waves are constantly lapping under the suspended bow.

There were five or six people standing on the bow deck, and they were divided into two groups, one of which stood tall Zhao Xing. Zhao Xing were two Japanese samurai with three knives on their bodies, and they were the two Japanese who ran before and after Su Dongpo's side. In the distance, on the side of the ship, there was Cheng Shuang, who was holding on to the side of the boat and vomiting weakly.

Opposite them were several sailors, one of whom was a strong man who looked like a captain and was still shouting: "No, I just said, we should go to Nanyang in winter, and only go to the country in summer, you came three months late, but you have to go to that place, look, we have been walking for three days, the sea is vast, and we have not seen anything." ”

Zhao Xing put his hands behind his back and looked very leisurely, while the two widows behind him put on a fierce look, and asked fiercely: "Zhao Guanren said that he was going north, and it has only been three days now, what do you say?" ”

As the two men spoke, they pulled out half of the Japanese knives in their waists, as if they were ready to start if they didn't say a word.

These two Japanese people looked gentle and generous in the territory of the Song Kingdom, and when they went to sea, they restored their original appearance, not only pinned with waist knives, but also parted with more than one.

At this time, the sword still retains the appearance of the Tang horizontal knife, and the blade is straight, similar to a single-edged sword. This kind of single-edged sword is often called "chopping horse sword" by modern people, its full name is called "Shang Fang Chopping Horse Sword", and it is referred to as "Shang Fang Sword" in Peking Opera, if it is written as a typo, it is "upper sword".

Now it has only one name, it is called "Kara sword", which is the name given by the Japanese, and later it is called "Japanese samurai sword", and if the blade is curved a little, it is "Japanese samurai sword".

There are more than two swords on the sword, which is the true practice of the samurai, and only one sword is placed in the waist, which is called a "ritual sword (sword)", that is, a weapon that is posed. Because according to current archaeological statistics, a real battle costs an average of 1.3 weapons to a fight. Because it is a matter of life and death, you have to choose between cherishing weapons and valuing your life, and if you want to save your life, you must bring more than two weapons.

Each of these three knives has its own name, and the longest one is called "Taidao", which means a larger knife, and a larger one is "Tai". This knife is used to break formations, and the blade is about 70% of the height of a person. The second knife is called a "punching knife" and has a blade length of 1.2 to 1.4 of the arm. The shortest sword, which was called a "halberd" in the Han Dynasty, a "hand knife" in the Song Dynasty, and a "rib cha" in the Japanese, was used to commit suicide.

In "Water Margin", Song Jiang killed Yan Poxi by using a knife to relieve his hand, and the Song people used this short knife to deal with the cover of official documents, which has lost the meaning of fighting.

The clamor of the Japanese people did not have the desired effect, and the captain of the ship was also a person who traveled from south to north, and the two sailors with sticks standing behind him also learned Zhao Xing's posture and fought with their bare hands. He grinned at the two widows, spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm and said, "Ghost, I haven't spoken to you, Da Lang hasn't opened his mouth yet, what is the dwarf jumping?" ”

"Da Lang" is a term in the rivers and lakes of the Song Dynasty, similar to the modern term "boss". The owner or cargo owner of a seagoing vessel is called the "Gangshou". Song Law "A Order: There are hundreds of big people and more than 100 small people, with giant businessmen as the leader, deputy leader, and miscellaneous affairs. Therefore, Zhao Xing's official title at this time is the head of the platform, and "Da Lang" is the title of the rivers and lakes.

Zhao Xing was not in a hurry, looked at the sun overhead, and said: "I heard that you have a way to identify the direction, the sky was cloudy and rainy a few days ago, and we couldn't determine the direction, now take out your and my methods, let's confirm it again - I insist that at most tomorrow morning, we will be able to see the land." ”

Zhao Xing and the others set off from Mingzhou, and according to the records of the Mingzhou ship, there was only a five-day voyage from Mingzhou to Japan. The record describes the route as follows: sail for one day towards the east where the sun rises, turn in the direction of the Big Dipper, and sail for three days, showing the Tamna ......

This technique is extremely sketchy. And all the ship bosses have their own sailing secrets. For example, now the boat boss is using his own method to determine the north, which is also recorded in the "Mengxi Pen Talk", Shen Kuo recorded three methods of determining the direction with a magnet, the most commonly used in the Song Dynasty is to throw the magnetic needle in the water basin guide, and the most accurate is the suspension method.

Now the boat boss uses the suspension method, and the Song people usually don't use this method. He took out a magnet, wiped a special large iron needle with the magnet, then tied a rope to the middle of the iron needle, suspended the iron needle, and then beckoned everyone to form a circle to block the sea breeze, and then pointed in the direction of the needle and said, "There is the north." ”

Zhao Xing put his hands behind his back and smiled faintly: "It's not so troublesome, look at me: face the sun, look at your shadow, take a step in the direction of the shadow with your right foot, point left and right with your feet apart, and the direction you face is north, it's as simple as that." ”

In fact, this method is only practical in the northern hemisphere, and the direction of the southern hemisphere is confirmed, which is just the opposite, but Zhao Xing did not explain this.

The boat boss repeatedly confirmed in disbelief according to this method, and his attitude became respectful: "It turns out that Da Lang is also a veteran who often runs the sea, this method is good...... You said we'll see land tomorrow, are you sure? Dalang, this is not a joke, the sea is vast, our fresh water has been exhausted, and we will not see the land tomorrow, so ......"

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